Damon is a well-respected and prolific public intellectual. He has written hundreds of essays for newspapers and magazines in Australia and abroad, including The Guardian, The Age/SMH, the ABC, BBC, New Philosopher, Meanjin, Aeon and more. Some of these include:
‘The case for strange daily routines’ Review (6/1/24).
'Nietzsche, or the art of cultivating ideas in the free air' El País (Spain) (21/6/23).
‘Why I can't be angry with my teenager for swearing’, ABC (4/7/20).
'Hail Hydra' Griffith Review (67, 2020).
‘Landlords: if you’re not prepared to do your job, don’t bother’, Domain (3/4/28).
'On playing the victim' Meanjin (26/2/18)
'A guide for hungry bibliophiles' The Independent (Ireland) (13/8/17)
‘Away with the white dudes’, Sydney Morning Herald (9/12/16).
'Get Your Kicks in Batman 66', Meanjin (75 4, 2016).
'It is because it isn't' Aeon (22/9/16).
'Our botanic gardens are about more than prettiness, or even science' The Guardian (18/5/14).
'My darkest knight' The Age (25/9/15).
'Fanny Price in the Garden' Island (139).
'Why swimming is sublime' The Guardian (7/2/14).
'Everyday Philosophy' Island (138).
'Public Writers, Private Lives' Island (135)
'The wisdom of gardens' Aeon (14/6/13).
'Tragic intimacy' Griffith Review (35, 2012).
‘The impossible vanity of caring for everything at once’, Sydney Morning Herald (16/1/12).
'The distraction society', BBC (7/5/2010).
'On fiction and philosophy' Meanjin (67 4, 2008).
'Facing Nietzsche's demon' Meanjin (64 3, 2005).